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Leader congratulates activists after Michael Shanks wins twice the votes of SNP rival in Rutherglen and Hamilton West
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Keir Starmer has told jubilant Scottish Labour activists that they “blew the doors off” with the party’s overwhelming victory in Thursday’s Rutherglen and Hamilton West byelection.
The party leader said the result was “not just about a couple of months of turmoil but years and years of non-delivery” on the part of Holyrood’s Scottish National party government.
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